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The raid on Bin Laden's compound deep inside the Pakistan border has further eroded already strained relations between Washington and Islamabad, and angry Pakistani officials have said they want the U.S. to reduce its military presence in their country.

The Pakistani army, while acknowledging it failed to find Bin Laden, said it would review cooperation with the U.S. if there is another similar attack.

Pakistani officials have denied sheltering bin Laden, and they have criticiced the U.S. operation as a violation of their country's sovereignty.

But a senior defence official said recent protests by Islamabad about the raid will not stop the U.S. from moving against terror leaders that threaten American security.

President Obama has made it clear that the U.S. will take action wherever necessary to root out Al-Qaeda, which has declared war on the United States and has been using Pakistan as a base to plot and direct attacks from there and other insurgent locations around the world.

The official also said there are no plans to scale back U.S. training of the Pakistani frontier corps and army. But the decision is up to Pakistan.

U.S. administration leaders have been careful not to directly accuse the Pakistani government of being complicit in the existence of sanctuaries that have cloaked bin Laden and his lieutenants.

But it strains credibility that the most wanted man in the world could have been hiding there in a large compound without Pakistani officials knowing.

Counter-terrorism officials have debated how big a role Bin Laden and core Al-Qaeda leaders were playing in the attacks launched by affiliated terror groups, particularly Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in Yemen, and al-Shabab in Somalia.

According to officials, information gathered in the compound suggests that Bin Laden was much more involved in directing Al-Qaeda personnel and operations than analysts had thought.